Global perspective of an Irish expat travel hacker with a serious case of wanderlust who has visted 60+ countries while living on 5 continents. My passion is travel. WARNING! - may contain foul language, nudity and Irish humour!

Wednesday, 11 June 2008

Probably the most touristy district in Buenos Aires is Recoleta. It's here you find an over priced arty / souvenir market (on weekends) and restaurants that charge double than outlying areas. It's also where you find lots of famous dead people in the cemetery including several ex heads of state and of course, the pride and joy of the country, Evita a.k.a Eva Peron (don't cry now!) and don't make jokes or this could happen.

If you don't like cats then don't come here because the stray cats are breeding like rabbits or indeed err ..em...cats, in this dead zone and pissing like horses and the stench of cat pish can be over powering at times. The graves / tombs are elaborate to the point of being tacky and probably cost more to build than a 3 bed apartment uptown. It's a good central location though so maybe you could invite the relatives to stay at your tomb for a long weekend after you've snuffed it.

Although the 6pm curfew could be a tad awkward unless they can scale high walls. It seems to be par for the course in Buenos Aires to have very high walls around a cemetery and I'm still not sure if it's to keep the grave robbers out or the dead people in!

Very cool . .the coffin's a bit creepy! At least they're well kept!I actually think the western idea of cremation and a little plaque rather sad! All our ancestors will dig up is little urns full of dust . . no tombs to raid or treasures to behold! I too was sorry to hear about Madonna. Maybe that's why she won't tour Australia and I just thought she was being a biatch!

Baino: I think it depends. My sisters partner was cremated a few years ago and his ashes spread on one of his fav country spots and a tree planted on the spot. I thought that was a lot more meaningful than a big headstone or tomb.